Revisiting My 2019 Reading List
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osprey_archerI haven’t quite finished the 2017 books yet, but I had some extra time at work Friday and what better use of that time than to go through my 2019 reading list and decide which authors to revisit? So here we are.
Katherine Applegate - Pocket Bear
Grace Lin - Chinese Menu: The History, Myths, and Legends Behind Your Favorite Foods
Shaun Tan - The Arrival. I read Tales of the City in 2019 and found it pretty downbeat, butlittlerhymes clued me in that Tan also wrote picture books so of course I have to give those a try.
C. S. Lewis - considering The World’s Last Night and Other Essays, although I’m also interested in Studies in Words
Toni Morrison - Beloved
Ben MacIntyre - Agent Sonya: Moscow’s Most Daring Wartime Spy
Lisa See - Daughters of the Sun and Moon. Her newest book! Not yet out, in fact.
Jacqueline Woodson
Penelope Farmer - the university library has Eve: Her Story, but also a book called Soumchi which appears to be written by an Israeli writer named Amos Oz, but nonetheless has Farmer’s name attached in the catalog. Did she translate? Or write the preface? May check it out just to solve the mystery.
Dorothy Gilman
George Gissing - Demos. After New Grub Street, I felt I had to explore Gissing further, and according to Wikipedia, George Orwell thought Demos was one of Gissing’s best novels.
E. M. Delafield - The Provincial Lady in Wartime
George Orwell - The Road to Wigan Pier
Vivien Alcock - A Kind of Thief. I found this book at a used bookstore so it has become my next Alcock
William Dean Howells - Their Wedding Journey
Booth Tarkington - Penrod. I’ve meant to explore more Booth Tarkington since I read Seventeen. At last I’m getting around to it!
Barbara Cooney - Letting Swift River Go. When I visitedasakiyume we went to the Quabbin on a foggy day, and asakiyume mentioned that Cooney illustrated a book about the building of the Quabbin, so of course that's next on my list.
Susan Cooper - torn between Dreams and Wishes: Essays on Writing for Children and Green Boy
William Bowen - Merrimeg. Bowen was a children’s fantasy author in the 1920s. I’d really like to read his book The Enchanted Forest, but it doesn’t appear to be on Gutenberg or FadedPage, so I’ll content myself with Merrimeg for now.
Katherine Applegate - Pocket Bear
Grace Lin - Chinese Menu: The History, Myths, and Legends Behind Your Favorite Foods
Shaun Tan - The Arrival. I read Tales of the City in 2019 and found it pretty downbeat, but
littlerhymes clued me in that Tan also wrote picture books so of course I have to give those a try. C. S. Lewis - considering The World’s Last Night and Other Essays, although I’m also interested in Studies in Words
Toni Morrison - Beloved
Ben MacIntyre - Agent Sonya: Moscow’s Most Daring Wartime Spy
Lisa See - Daughters of the Sun and Moon. Her newest book! Not yet out, in fact.
Jacqueline Woodson
Penelope Farmer - the university library has Eve: Her Story, but also a book called Soumchi which appears to be written by an Israeli writer named Amos Oz, but nonetheless has Farmer’s name attached in the catalog. Did she translate? Or write the preface? May check it out just to solve the mystery.
Dorothy Gilman
George Gissing - Demos. After New Grub Street, I felt I had to explore Gissing further, and according to Wikipedia, George Orwell thought Demos was one of Gissing’s best novels.
E. M. Delafield - The Provincial Lady in Wartime
George Orwell - The Road to Wigan Pier
Vivien Alcock - A Kind of Thief. I found this book at a used bookstore so it has become my next Alcock
William Dean Howells - Their Wedding Journey
Booth Tarkington - Penrod. I’ve meant to explore more Booth Tarkington since I read Seventeen. At last I’m getting around to it!
Barbara Cooney - Letting Swift River Go. When I visited
asakiyume we went to the Quabbin on a foggy day, and asakiyume mentioned that Cooney illustrated a book about the building of the Quabbin, so of course that's next on my list. Susan Cooper - torn between Dreams and Wishes: Essays on Writing for Children and Green Boy
William Bowen - Merrimeg. Bowen was a children’s fantasy author in the 1920s. I’d really like to read his book The Enchanted Forest, but it doesn’t appear to be on Gutenberg or FadedPage, so I’ll content myself with Merrimeg for now.
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